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Tourism and Economic Development : Evidence from Mexico's Coastline

Faber, Benjamin - 2016

Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican … consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains … regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect …

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Fluctuations in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820 to 2000

Dupont, Brandon - 2009

There were substantial fluctuations in the numbers of American overseas travelers, especially before World War II. These fluctuations in travel around the robust, long term upward trend are the focus of this paper. We first identify those fluctuations in the raw data and then try to explain the...

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The American Invasion of Europe : The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000

Dupont, Brandon - 2008

Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also …'s establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this paper we investigate the long term rise in overseas travel by … as mass tourism. We document this rise by compiling a long term series on overseas travel, and describe the changes in …

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Combining Panel Data Sets with Attrition and Refreshment Samples

Hirano, Keisuke - 1998

In many fields researchers wish to consider statistical models that allow for more complex relationships than can be inferred using only cross-sectional data. Panel or longitudinal data where the same units are observed repeatedly at different points in time can often provide the richer data...

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Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities : Evidence from Amsterdam

Almagro, Milena; Domínguez-Iino, Tomás - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

, we show the distributional effects of mass tourism depend on this heterogeneity: following rent increases due to growing …

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The Color of Ideas : Racial Dynamics and Citations in Economics

Koffi, Marlène; Pongou, Roland; Wantchekon, Leonard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper investigates the existence of racial disparities in the dissemination of ideas using the paper citation network in economics. Exploiting a comprehensive dataset of over 330,000 publications from 1950 to 2021, combined with manually collected data from the CVs of thousands of...

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When is Sovereign Debt Odious? A Theory of Government Repression, Growth Traps, and Growth Boosts

Acharya, Viral V.; Rajan, Raghuram Govind; Shim, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the dynamics of a country's growth, consumption, and sovereign debt, assuming that the government is myopic and wants to maximize short-term, self-interested spending. Surprisingly, government myopia can increase a country's access to external borrowing. In turn, access to borrowing...

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Ph.D. Publication Productivity : The Role of Gender and Race in Supervision in South Africa

Rossello, Giulia; Cowan, Robin A.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study whether student-advisor gender and race composition matters for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in South Africa. We consider all Ph.D. students in STEM graduating between 2000 and 2014, after the recent systematic introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We...

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AGING IN STYLE : Seniority and Sentiment in Scholarly Writing

Kosnik, Lea-Rachel; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and others. Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine how it changes with age, and how stylistic differences and age affect impact. As top-level...

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Why Do Older Scholars Slow Down?

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Kosnik, Lea-Rachel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using data describing all "Top 5" economics journal publications from 1969-2018, we examine what determines which authors produce less as they age and which retire earlier. Sub-field has no impact on the rate of production, but interacts with it to alter retirement probabilities. A positive,...

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